Medical imaging is as central to patient care as are labs or pathology, and concern for radiation safety is as old as the field itself. These concerns have generated multiple mandates related to ...

Medical physicists at the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) have worked with the ...

August 2005 Staff Administers Wrong Radiation Dose A 72-year-old man with cancer of the esophagus was to receive twice-daily treatments, but instead got only one a day for five days.

Radiation dose management in medical imaging presents a number of challenges. Image quality must be optimized to aid diagnosis while minimizing the risk of patient or healthcare workers exposure ...

The radiation dose from a nuclear medicine procedure is measured in units of sieverts (usually in millisieverts, mSv). The effective dose that needs to be administered during an investigation is ...

This medical test may cause cancer due to ‘unfathomable’ mistake — and it’s performed 93M ... Experts say the radiation doses they deliver can vary dramatically — and often exceed what ...

Radiation for brain cancer can cause a variety of side effects. Some are mild and short term. Others are more severe and may last for longer.

Radiation Doses for Common CT ... the medical benefit you get from the scan outweighs the odds of any problem you might ... keep a chart of them so your doctors know how often you’re exposed ...

The low-dose radiation treatments also can be used to treat plantar fasciitis, a common cause of heel pain. If left untreated, plantar fasciitis can lead to foot, hip knee or back problems.

Radiation dose management in medical imaging presents a number of challenges. Image quality must be optimized to aid diagnosis while minimizing the risk of patient or healthcare workers exposure ...